The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 8
... less pertinent and agreeable . His Phædra is a consummate tragedy , and the success of it was as great as the most sanguine expectations of his friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling ...
... less pertinent and agreeable . His Phædra is a consummate tragedy , and the success of it was as great as the most sanguine expectations of his friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling ...
Pàgina 9
... less men than Shakespeare and Jonson ) , is clear from hence ; because he left his works to the entire disposal of his friends , whose most rigorous censures he even courted and solicited ; submitting to their animadversions , and the ...
... less men than Shakespeare and Jonson ) , is clear from hence ; because he left his works to the entire disposal of his friends , whose most rigorous censures he even courted and solicited ; submitting to their animadversions , and the ...
Pàgina 12
... less notorious . At Oxford , as we all know , much will be forgiven to literary merit ; and of that he had exhibited sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and ...
... less notorious . At Oxford , as we all know , much will be forgiven to literary merit ; and of that he had exhibited sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and ...
Pàgina 16
... unquestionably qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I suspect him to have had less power . Having formed his plan , and collected materials , he declared that a few months would complete his design ; and 16 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... unquestionably qualified , or for moving the passions , in which I suspect him to have had less power . Having formed his plan , and collected materials , he declared that a few months would complete his design ; and 16 LIVES OF THE POETS.
Pàgina 17
... less frequent avocations , he was , in June 1710 , invited by Mr. George Ducket to his house at Gartham in Wiltshire . Here he found such opportunities of indulgence as did not much forward his studies , and particularly some strong ale ...
... less frequent avocations , he was , in June 1710 , invited by Mr. George Ducket to his house at Gartham in Wiltshire . Here he found such opportunities of indulgence as did not much forward his studies , and particularly some strong ale ...
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